Potsdam Conference

The Potsdam Conference was a meeting held by the United States, Soviet Union, and United Kingdom from 17 July to 2 August 1945 to discuss postwar order and peace treaty issues. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Premier Joseph Stalin, and Prime Minister Clement Attlee met at Potsdam in Germany and agreed on who would accept the Japanese military's surrenders in various locations occupied by Japan, agreed that the USSR could occupy Poland after the end of World War II, and warned Japan that they would face utter destruction if they did not surrender (the Potsdam Declaration).